diff --git a/qualifier.py b/qualifier.py
index 5e032ef..ff7e757 100644
--- a/qualifier.py
+++ b/qualifier.py
@@ -1,5 +1,72 @@
 import datetime
+import re
+from decimal import Decimal, InvalidOperation
+
+
+MAGIC_REGEX_STR = (
+    r'^'                             # Beginning of the timestamp
+    r'(?P<year>[0-9]{4})'            # Four digit year
+    r'(?P<sepd>-?)'                  # Optional `-` separator, saved into the capture group `sepd` (either `-` or empty)
+    r'(?P<month>[0-9]{2})'           # Two digit month
+    r'(?P=sepd)'                     # Match `sepd`, so we enforce the same separator rule across the timestamp
+    r'(?P<day>[0-9]{2})'             # Two digit day
+    r'(T'                            # Beginning of the optional time part
+        r'(?P<hour>[0-9]{2})'        # Two digit hour
+        r'(?P<sept>:?)'              # Optional `:` separator, saved into the capture group `sept` (either `:` or empty)
+        r'(?P<minute>[0-9]{2})?'     # Optional two digit minute
+        r'((?P=sept)'                # Match `sept` if `minute` match too, so we enforce the same separator rule
+        r'(?P<second>[0-9.]{2,}))?'  # Optional second composed of at least 2 numbers and dots (`.`)
+        r')?'                        # End of the time part
+    r'(?P<timezone>'                 # Beginning of the optional timezone part
+            r'Z'                     # Option 1 : literal `Z`
+        r'|'                         # OR option 2 :
+            r'(\+|-)'                # Either literal `+` OR `-`
+            r'[0-9]{2}'              # Two digit hour
+            r'(:?'                   # Ignored optional separator
+            r'[0-9]{2})?'            # Optional two digit minute
+        r')?'                        # End of the timezone part
+    r'$'                             # End of the timestamp
+)
+# 210 chars long :>
+
+MAGIC_REGEX = re.compile(MAGIC_REGEX_STR)
+
+KEYS = ('year', 'month', 'day', 'hour', 'minute')  # List of arguments accepted by the datetime constructor
+# `second` and `tzinfo` are manually added, since they need additional steps
 
 
 def parse_iso8601(timestamp: str) -> datetime.datetime:
     """Parse an ISO-8601 formatted time stamp."""
+    match = re.match(MAGIC_REGEX, timestamp)
+
+    if not match:  # The regex didn't match, we just raise an error
+        raise ValueError(f"{timestamp} isn't a valid ISO8601 timestamp")
+
+    args = {key: int(match.group(key)) if match.group(key) else 0 for key in KEYS}  # Dict keyword-arg -> value
+
+    if match.group('second'):
+        if not match.group('minute'):
+            # if `minute` didn't matched, it means that there wasn't enough character in the time part
+            raise ValueError('Time definition too short')
+
+        try:
+            second = Decimal(match.group('second'))
+        except InvalidOperation:
+            raise ValueError(f'{match.group("second")} isn\'t a valid number')
+        # We need to reprocess it to extract the microseconds
+        args['microsecond'] = int((second % 1) * 1_000_000)
+        args['second'] = int(second)
+
+    tz = match.group('timezone')
+    if tz:
+        if tz == 'Z':
+            tz = datetime.timezone.utc
+        else:
+            tz = tz.replace(":", "").ljust(5, '0')
+            # Get rid of the separator if there is one, and enforce the size of the string
+            tz = datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=int(tz[:3]), minutes=int(tz[0] + tz[3:5])))
+            # Construct the timezone based on the sign (index 0) and the revelant part
+    args['tzinfo'] = tz
+
+    return datetime.datetime(**args)  # Construct the final datetime object
+